20 Minutes to Dinner: Quick, Low-Fat, Low-Calorie Vegetarian Meals at Chef2Chef

Secondly, in regards to the time it takes to make a recipe, and complaints that I had misled readers, read my section on p. 18 entitled "About the Length of Time Needed to Make These Recipes", which I will quote in it's entirety below. Before I do that, however, I would like to say also that I believe that it's my responsibility, as a cook making someone else's recipe, to read the entire recipe through before embarking on it. If I don't do this, I can hardly blame the writer of the recipe if I don't have the right ingredients! It is also completely unreasonable to add time for shopping into the time it takes to make a recipe! There is a whole chapter in the book on tips for the "time-challenged" cook, covering shoppping, kitchen efficiency, and equipment, in which I urge cooks to make menus ahead of time and keep a running shopping list so they don't run out of things. I do this myself, because I live on a small island. If I had to add shopping time to a recipe, it might! seem that every dish takes me over 4 hours to make!

Also, if these foods are unfamiliar to you, it's going to take you a little longer than it takes me. When you are used to vegan food items and how to cook them, then, of course, it takes less time.

I use this book often myself, and I'd like to thank all the reviewers who wrote in with positive comments.

Reader Reviews
... when I became a vegan. Perhaps this book ought to have been entitled "30 minutes to dinner" instead - yet this shouldn't put any people off, and as the previous comment rightly states, the negative critics given by some people is completely unjust! Bryanna is - in my opinion - one of the most innovative vegan cooks, and I can recommend any of her books (I have them all myself). Not only is the book about quick vegan meals, they are also extremely low-fat, yet all are rich-tasting delicious meals - AND as also mentioned below - the ingredients are easily available in health food stores (even in Denmark where I live!) If you do not have a food processor, get one now, as this is one equipment that Bryanna uses very frequently in her books. The opening chapter is about cooking & shopping tips, and this is very useful for planning your meals, as well as making a lot of your basics yourself - it's cheaper and you're sure not to get any weird extra-ingredients! There's a chapter on speedy dips and spreads, lovely soups and chowders (check out the sea vegetable chowder!), inventive salads (the oriental noodle salad is sooo delicious!), pasta dishes, quick pizzas, extensive sandwich and all kinda stuffed breads ideas, grilled alternatives to meat (tofu & seitan), stirfries, ... the book is simply jampacked with ideas and variations so that you can use what you have at hand. It is a superb cookbook, and it's definitely recommended!